Masculine Births

Name: Masculine Births
Brand: Northwestern University Press

Northwestern University Press

Masculine BirthsMilton, Women, and the Law\nAuthor(s): Lynne Greenberg, Lynne Ann Greenberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Northwestern University Press, United States\nImprint: Northwestern University Press\nISBN-13: 9780810149847, 978-0810149847\nSynopsis\nExamining the legal lives of early modern women through Milton's literary works\n\n In his History of Britain, John Milton writes, \""Laws are Masculin Births . . . nothing [is] more awry from the Law of God and Nature, then that a Woman should give Laws to Men.\"" In this interdisciplinary study, Lynne Greenberg explores the normative and nonnormative legal lives of early modern women as depicted in Milton's worksunmarried and married women, mothers, heiresses, widows, and queensproviding cogent overviews of the laws of multiple jurisdictions to offer critical context for each case study. Greenberg explores a wide range of legal-juridical materials and previously unexplored archival and private family documents. As she demonstrate.